Hi,
I hope I get the word out about the new date (the 21st) to everyone who plans to tune in to the NPR interview on Keep This Quiet!
Jim Engster is doing the interview and anyone can ask questions here:
Call The Jim Engster show at (225) 297-5633.
Tweet Jim @WRKF #JimEngster.
Jim phoned me today and asked to switch the date. His site says:
Jim Engster is the president of the Louisiana Radio Network, which provides news coverage to 80 affiliate stations. Engster also holds the positi...
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Keep This Quiet! LIVE
Keep This Quiet! has just gone live.
I found that out to my surprise this morning. Doing my usual rounds of checking up on it, what did I see but "in stock." B & N still has it at a 32% discount, with immediate shipping.
Amazon doesn't yet have the correct information but it will by the middle of next week, or earlier. Then it will update its display to reflect correct shipping date and discounts.
In the meantime, B & N has the floor all to itself.
I was worried that it would turn ou...
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Review of “Keep This Quiet”
What more beautiful birthday present could a person get?
Check out this review on http://hstbooks.org.
Not knowing that it was the eve of my birthday, Marty Flynn sent me the link yesterday.
And that was among several surprises. He called it his humble opinion - beautiful indeed.
The book is also just up on Amazon for preorder, as on B & N (32% discount there). I'm sure Amazon will go down in price as well, but at the moment it hasn't a clue about the distribution, so it's got a listin...
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Totally Gonzo
Rory Feehan lives in Ireland and runs the Totally Gonzo website, one of the very best Hunter Thompson sites. He pointed out that Keep This Quiet will be published during the big publicity focus on the new Johnny Depp movie, The Rum Diary, based on a novel by Hunter. That will go into theaters at the end of September. I read the original manuscript back in the time of the publication of Hell's Angels. The manuscript, of course, remained unpublished for decades - and was not in its final form wh...
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Getting Over the Last Hurdle
My memoir is just now having its corrections finalized. What an amazing odyssey it is, to enter the production phase. This is the first time I had a complete interior design, top to bottom, and it's quite a venture. So a month from now, if not before, I should have sample books out. Just an amazing development, in that this book has some audience traction and might cause some interesting responses. So forward to the races.
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